Miter-box



(No Model.)

W. WASSUNG.

MITBR BOX.

Patented Oct. 2

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MlTER-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,097, dated October 2 1883. Application filed May 4, $83. (No model.)

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IBe it known that], \VJLLIA 1n: WAssUNo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in MitenBoxes for llaning the Ends of llloldings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in an improved mitenbox', for holding a molding to cause one end to intersect a surface over which is moved aplane to smooth said end in causing it to con-. l'o rm to the plane surface.

The construction of my device is fully illus trated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a plan view; Fig. II, a side elevation; Fig. III, a sectional side elevation on dotted line as m of Fig. 1; Figs. IV and V, end views of sections on the dotted line i y of Fig. I; and Fig. V.[ is an enlarged detail.

-13 is an elongated wooden frame, having rectangular inner sides and flat upper surface, and provided with. lugs I) l), or othercon; venient means for securing it to the top of a earpentefls bench. \Vithin the frame 13 are two wooden jaws, C 1), extending from side to side of the frame, while leaving a portion of the frame unfilled longitudinally. The jaws O D are adapted to slide in the frame to have their top surface flush with that of the frame, and their ends parallel with each other, and with the inner end walls of the frame. f

c c are grooves in the inner walls of frame 3, in which are received the tongues d d of the jaws.

E is a hand-screw having a nut in the end of the frame, and having one end swiveled to the jaw C, so that its rotation will move the jaw in the frame.

F is a finger-catch in jaw D, by means of which it may he slid in the frame.

The jaws O D are provided upon their adjacent ends with one or more grooves, h, in which and between the jaws fits the head G, moved transversely to the jaw-bearing surfaces by means of the hand-screw H, having a nut in one side of the frame and projecting beyond, as shown. 'Within the opposite side of the frame to screw H is arranged the rest 1', consisting of a bar having a straight edge parallel to the top edge of the frame and. at right angles to the gIiPPlllg-Slll'fiLOG of the jaws, and having guir'ling-rods f f and moving screw 9 passing through the wall of the frame. The frame affords a liiearing for the thumb -nut J, arranged in it, as shown, to

move the bar Ibaclc and forth, the guidingrodsff serving to keep the bar I in the proper position. The jaws (l l) are slotted between its tongues and grooves at v, to permit them to pass over the restingbar I, as well as ad mit of the movement of the bar throughthcm.

In operation, the jaw l) is arranged solidly against the end of the frame, as seen in Fig l. The jaw O is moved to leave a space, easily admitting the molding between the jaws to have one end extend through the frame, as seen in Fig. V, while its other slightly pro jects above the truing surface of the box. The rest I is adjusted to bring its bearingedge at the required angle to the corner of the frame upon which the molding rests, and the jaw Q is screwed to clamp the molding be tween thejaws, in which position it is ready to have its end dressed by a plane to coincide with the surface of the miter-box.

From the configuration of some moldings it is desirable to have astraight-edge to bear at right angles to the edges of the jaws to enable the moldings to be properly adjusted in the box, and for that purpose the ends of the jaws O D are grooved, as before stated, to receive between the jaws the head G, having corresponding tongues, and operated by the screw H to be run against the flat inner face of the molding.

Ahead, G, is used of the known width of the molding, and may be deep enough to embrace the upper and lower grooves in thejaws, or only the upper, as the angle at which the molding is set permits.

lVhen'it is desired to plane the end of the h molding to a right angle, the jaw D is moved to admit the molding between it and the end of the frame, and the screw E is employed to ter toward and from jaw D, the screw E, en- 10 bring both jaws, acting as one, to bear upon gaging with jaw O and with frame B, and the the molding to clamp it. head G, and bar I, adapted to be adjusted Now, having described my invention, what transversely between the jaws G and D, com- I claim as new is bined and operating substantially as set forth. The within-described miter-box for planing \VILLIAM \VASSUNG.

the ends of moldings, consisting of the reotlVitnesses:

angular frame B, the jaw D, fitted in said R. F. HYDE,

frame, the jaw 0, adapted to slide in the lat- H. A. CHAPIN. 

